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Highly amusing bird? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

skylark

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'highly amusing bird?' is the definition.
'skylark' can be an answer for 'bird?' (skylark is a kind of bird). I am unsure of the 'highly amusing' bit.

'amusing bird?' is the wordplay.
'amusing' becomes 'sky' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bird?' becomes 'lark' (lark is a kind of bird).
'sky'+'lark'='SKYLARK'

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(Other definitions for skylark that I've seen before include "Early rising bird" , "Common songbird" , "Bird (of 23?)" , "Bird that sings aloft" , "Play boisterously" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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